Biography

Deepa Varadarajan joined Stanford Law School as a Fellow in 2009. Deepa's writing and research focuses on property theory, intellectual property, cultural property and indigenous rights.

Prior to joining Stanford, Deepa worked at the San Francisco office of Covington & Burling LLP. As a litigation associate, her work spanned a variety of subject areas, including appellate advocacy, intellectual property, antitrust, and disputes over the ownership of artwork. She also served as a law clerk to Judge M. Margaret McKeown of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and Judge Charles P. Sifton of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. Before clerking, Deepa worked at the New York office of Sullivan & Cromwell in the area of international project finance. She is a 2003 graduate of Yale Law School, where she was a member editor of the Yale Law Journal and editor of the Yale Human Rights & Development Law Journal.

Publications

• Deepa Varadarajan, Note, Billboards and Big Utilities: Borrowing Land Use Concepts to Regulate "Nonconforming" Sources Under the Clean Air Act. 112 YALE L. J. 2553 (2003).
• Deepa Varadarajan, Note, Tortious Interference and the Law of Contract: The Case for Specific Performance Revisited. 111 YALE L.J. 735 (2001).